| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from King James Bible: CO1 12:18 But now hath God set the members every one of them in the
body, as it hath pleased him.
CO1 12:19 And if they were all one member, where were the body?
CO1 12:20 But now are they many members, yet but one body.
CO1 12:21 And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee:
nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.
CO1 12:22 Nay, much more those members of the body, which seem to be
more feeble, are necessary:
CO1 12:23 And those members of the body, which we think to be less
honourable, upon these we bestow more abundant honour; and our uncomely
parts have more abundant comeliness.
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from King James Bible: dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning
pitch.
ISA 34:10 It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof
shall go up for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste;
none shall pass through it for ever and ever.
ISA 34:11 But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl
also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it
the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness.
ISA 34:12 They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none
shall be there, and all her princes shall be nothing.
ISA 34:13 And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles
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| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from King James Bible: diverse from all the others, exceeding dreadful, whose teeth were of
iron, and his nails of brass; which devoured, brake in pieces, and
stamped the residue with his feet;
DAN 7:20 And of the ten horns that were in his head, and of the other
which came up, and before whom three fell; even of that horn that had
eyes, and a mouth that spake very great things, whose look was more
stout than his fellows.
DAN 7:21 I beheld, and the same horn made war with the saints, and
prevailed against them;
DAN 7:22 Until the Ancient of days came, and judgment was given to the
saints of the most High; and the time came that the saints possessed the
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The fourth excerpt represents the element of Earth. It speaks of physical influences and the impact of the unseen on the visible world, and is drawn from King James Bible: David, into the cave of Adullam; and the host of the Philistines
encamped in the valley of Rephaim.
CH1 11:16 And David was then in the hold, and the Philistines' garrison
was then at Bethlehem.
CH1 11:17 And David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me drink
of the water of the well of Bethlehem, that is at the gate!
CH1 11:18 And the three brake through the host of the Philistines, and
drew water out of the well of Bethlehem, that was by the gate, and took
it, and brought it to David: but David would not drink of it, but poured
it out to the LORD.
CH1 11:19 And said, My God forbid it me, that I should do this thing:
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